Democrats in the House have a constitutional responsibility for oversight.

This is what I want Democrats to do, if I have anything to say about it, this is what I'm going to push. I want to raise that minimum wage today from a starvation minimum wage of $7.25 an hour to 15 bucks an hour so working people can live…

Well, I think what Democrats are increasingly trying to do is represent the middle class and working families and not the billionaire class or the 1 percent.

I think of the many concerns that I have about Trump, and his tax breaks for billionaires and he's trying to throw people off health insurance, this movement toward an authoritarian type society and support of authoritarians all over the…

I think if, in fact, it turns out what I believe to be true is that Khashoggi was killed by the Saudis, it requires some sanctions and it requires a fundamental rethinking of U.S./Saudi relations.

No, I don't think so. I mean, that's what he said yesterday. God knows what he will say tomorrow.

It sounds to me like they killed this guy. He was a dissident and a critic of the regime.

several of my Republican colleagues have mentioned that some of us came out in opposition to Judge Kavanaugh almost immediately after he was nominated by the President. Count me in. I was one of those people. I say that without any…

one out of four women in this country has been a victim of sexual assault. This is an epidemic, and it tells me-- and I think the vast majority of the American people--that we need a culture change in the way boys and men respond to women…

If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

We need trade policies that benefit American workers, not just the CEOs of large corporations.

I think this idea makes a lot of sense.

That is a culture that has to change.

I think it, to me, would be unconscionable for Chuck Grassley to go forward with a vote on Friday before we had a thorough FBI investigation.

I think he would, if seated, become part of a hard-right majority voting against the environment, voting against women's rights in Roe versus Wade, voting against campaign finance reform.

I do not judge what President Trump says because I think he's a kind of unstable guy who lies a whole lot of the time, and whatever he says today may well change tomorrow.

Private insurance reimbursement rates are higher than Medicare in your state?

I think there is general agreement that we have a shortage of physicians in the country and in rural America in particular.

many of my colleagues voted to cut $1 trillion in funding over a 10-year period to Medicaid, and $500 billion to Medicare.

two-thirds of rural counties in America are depopulating, two-thirds.

the cost of healthcare is very, very high. Of course it's high. We pay almost twice as much per capita for healthcare as any other nation on earth.

I think Senator Roberts a couple of years ago--Senator, correct me if I'm wrong, but you were telling me I think in parts of Kansas there are counties where there are no doctors.

But I would hope that at the end of the day, we understand that healthcare is a right, not a privilege.

the VA is the largest integrated health care system in the country. It has problems.

the day will come, and more and more people understand it--that we are the only major country on earth not to guarantee healthcare to every man, woman, and child in Wyoming and Vermont as a right, not a privilege.